ACL 2012: Top Ten Ambient

A Closer Listen receives more submissions in the Ambient field than in any other, which means that our ambient artists must try even harder to stand out.  This seems ironic, since the nature of ambient music has been not to stand out.

ACL 2012: The Year’s Best Album Covers

These are times of widespread disconnect, and music is one of the most genuine ways for a person all alone to feel understood. We’re seeing DIY backlashes against this loss of connection everywhere (Just look into the boom on homesteading

LCNL Mix 011: Daylight Fades

LCNL Mix 011 The internet as a distribution network for music  has done some really wonderful things for us, bad press to the contrary aside. As I hope this series itself will eventually attest, there is great productive power in

36 ~ Lithea

For Dennis Huddleston making music as 36 seems to be coming to an end with Lithea, the final part of what is a triptych album series that began with the a la Lifeforms-era Future Sound of London Hypersona, an album where ambient seems to be